Usually means: Eliciting intense fear or dread.
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  1. spine-chilling: Merriam-Webster
  2. spine-chilling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spine-chilling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spine-chilling, spine-chilling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Spine-Chilling, spine-chilling: Wordnik
  6. spine-chilling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. spine-chilling: Wiktionary
  8. spine-chilling: Dictionary.com
  9. spine-chilling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. spine-chilling: Encyclopedia

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adjective:  Inducing fear or nervousness; frequently used of a work of fiction.

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